Diane and I have started walking with George in the early morning. We leave home around 6am and fast walk about 4 mies through the empty streets of Santa fe. George carries a backpack with 25 pounds oin it.. he’s a member of a group called ‘ruckers’ that walk every day with backpacks.. its fun !

this morning was really smoky due to the fires in the hills just outside Santa Fe.  made for a pretty interesting sunrise

As soon as we got home. wewent by Max and beckys and picked up violet and took her to teh dog park. She loves that first thin gin the morning 

here’s what the smoke likes liek from there.. pretty spooky !

the rest of the day, we all worked aroudn max and beckys.. helping measure soem shelving, mulching the yard, etc.. 

we finally got a little much needed rain.. and with it came a biit of a rainbow. 

Did you ever notice that the days of the week contain ‘wTF’ ? .. I didnt either till i stred at this calendar in our rental kitchen

nite all, nite sam
-me

Today was a busy day around the house.. I did finish up on a project I was working on..   Here’s what I wrote about it on our company ‘show and tell’ channel 

“I just did a project around the crazy kids thermal printer camera I always cary. they are about  $30 and record really grainy b/w imaged on thermal receipt paper. Here’s the one I have 

One of things I love about these cameras is that they print on a roll of really cheap thermal paper.. .. you can go to an event and shoot all day and end up with a roll of grainy pictures that document the whole event. .

The thing is, you end up with hundreds of these pictures that are too good to through away. and not good enough to do anything else with..

So.. I bought an obsolete NEET receipt scanner on Ebay for $20. The company no longer supports them, but I figured I could hack it to do what I wanted. Thanks to help from Claude, I found  drivers for the NEET.. then wrote code to read in the rolls of printouts, detect the frames, straighten them , and upload them to google drive.  I scanned several hundred  pics from Hackclub hackathon events, weddings, burning  man Fluffy art car events etc.. You can see them here .  Code is here

I still have the limitation that I need to cut the strips into 9 images or so to get them to scan. I’m still working on getting the full continuous  scan working which  I can do once I figure out the how to start and stop the scanner with finer control..

the pictures look like  this. 

So thats what I was up to part of today

nite all. nite sam

-me

Danny and elizabeth took off today.. we had a nice send off brunch. 

always great seeing them

nite all, nite sam

-me

Today Gabe and My a take off.. Mya’s heading back to portland and gabe’s heading to hgermany. it’s been so nice having them here !. 

Its been so nice having everyoen here for the baby shower

This is really happening !!!!

nite all, nite sam
-me